Method of preparing hair, &amp;c.



JOHN BATTIS AND ALFRED Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

PUTNAM GOODELL, or SALEM, MASSA- GHUSETTS.

METHOD OF PREPARING HAIR, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 782,316, dated February14, 1905.

Application filed January 23,1902. Serial No. 90,980. (Specimens-l ofwhich the following, taken in connection with the accompanying specimen,is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and useful method of making and theproduct, of a substitute for whalebone; and it consists in the bindingof single hairs or fibers into an vindividual bundle by first coatingthe hairs or fiber with cement and causing a complete adhesion betweenthe se; eral fibers and-allowing the same to dry and afterward moldingthe mass of fibers in a mold and again allowing the fibers to dry andafterward coating the bundle with ,cement, preferably of the samematerial used for treating the individual fibers, thereby producing anindividual strip which will not split, crack, or break.-

In ca'i'rying out our invention it is our purpose to employ any suitablefiber, preferably hair, and place the same in parallel layers of anylength or thickness and treat the fibers individually with any suitablewaterproof, elastic, pliable cement, and after the same has been allowedto dry, preferably under pressure, whereby the fibers are held in properparallel relation to produce an adhesion. between the coated fibers andprevent bunching or entwining the same, forming the same into a 5 singlest.i p of any desired shape, form, and

thickness. Following this preparation or treatment the cohering stripsof fibers having I the individual coating of pliable cement or glue areincased by a covering, preferabl y of the material used in coating theindividual fibers, to effect an adhesion, thereby producing ahomogeneous strip, which may be thick or thin as the resistance of theinterior fibers l is greater or less, as the greater the number offibers in the bundle the greater the splitting strain will be under abendingstress. The top of the strip passing through a greater arc thanthe bottom will have a tendency to flatten and squeeze out at the sidesthe center fibers. Therefore the walls inclosing said fibers must be ofsuflicient strength to withstand the pressure, and so allowing thereaction to. be complete and the piece to fly back to its originalposition ready for repeated strains and returns without splitting. Byhaving the coating surrounding the individual fibers of the sameconsistency and nature as the cement surrounding theinterior fibers wehave found that the same elasticity is produced,which will the bendingof the strip.

. We are aware that it has been common in the art to manufacturesubstitutes for whalebone in which fibers of various kinds have beenutilized which have been woven or braided and glued together in layersin various manners, and hence we make no claim for such construction. Inour invention each fiber is permitted to exercise its individualfunction in establishing the necessary pliability and elasticityrequired to produce a satisfactory product which will stand all of thetests which have been applied to the same and without splitting,breaking, cracking, or losing any of its elasticity.

The product of our invention provides a unique article of manufacturequite equal to whalebone itself and adapted for the various uses forwhich the latter is employed.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A method of forming a substitute for whalebone consisting in coatingindividual fibers with an elastic, pliable material assemblingthe samein a layer or strip and permitting the fibers to partially dry,afterward subjecting the same to pressure to even form preparatory totheir being covered, as set forth.

2'. A method of forming a substitute for whalebone consisting in coatingtwo or more individual fibers with an elastic, pliable mapreventcracking or splitting under stress of terial and permitting the fibersto partially dry, afterward assembling the fibers, subjecting the sameto pressure to shape the same evenly in a layer, and afterward incasingsaid layer with a covering of adhesive material in sheet form, saidmaterial to be identical in composition with the elastic, pliablematerial coating said two or more individual fibers, as set forth.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a substitute for Whalebonemade up of a series of fibers individually coated With cement andpressed together in parallel relation, and a casing of the same kind ofcement in sheet form surrounding said fibers formingahomogeneous strip,as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures to thisspecification, in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses, on this21st day of January, A. D. 1902.

JOHN BATTIS. ALFRED PUTNAM GOODELL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. ToBIN, JOHN J. REGAN.

